Lamb, Christina
Summary: "Across the world women are victimized by wartime atrocities that are rarely recorded, much less punished. The first ever prosecution for war rape was in 1997 and there have been remarkably few convictions since, as if rape doesn't matter in the reckoningof war, only killing. Some courageous women in countries around the world are taking things in their own hands, hunting down the war criminals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 341.6 LAMTurow, Scott
Summary: Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Kosovo refugee camp--unsolved for ten years--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. In order to uncover what happened during the apocalyptic chaos after the Bosnian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC TURCole, Matthew A.
Summary: "The Navy SEALs are, for most Americans, the ultimate heroes. Their 2011 killing of Osama Bin Laden was celebrated as a victory in the War on Terror. Former SEALs rake in thousands of dollars as leadership consultants for American corporations. And young men who want to join the military dream of serving in their elite ranks. But as recent revelations, like the uproar around former SEAL Eddie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.9 COLTurow, Scott
Summary: Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Kosovo refugee camp, unsolved for ten years, he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. In order to uncover what happened during the apocalyptic chaos after the Bosnian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TURSummary: A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efran̕ Ro̕s Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LLOWideman, John Edgar
Summary: "In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett’s murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis’s execution, he couldn’t escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TILL, LOUIS WIDParadis, Michel
Summary: A narrative account of the Doolittle Raids of World War II traces the daring Raiders attack on mainland Japan, the fate of the crews who survived the mission, and the international war crimes trials that defined Japanese-American relations and changed legal history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 PARSummary: Follows the war crimes hearings from accusation to sentencing, offering insight into the cases of such defendants as Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORSummary: This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Island 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOCJohansen, Iris
Summary: Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle, but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers, many of them children, have been killed in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHJohansen, Iris
Summary: In this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Johansen 2019Pearson, Judith
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 PEAMoore, Stephen L.
Summary: In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. After years of slave labor, starvation, disease, and torture, their worst fears were about to be realized. On December 14, with machine guns trained on them, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOOTurse, Nick.
Summary: Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2013
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Summary: England, 1947: A young woman finds herself under close observation in an insane asylum, charged with a violent crime she has no memory of committing. As she tries to make sense of her recent past, she recalls very little. But she still remembers wartime in Yugoslavia. There she and her lover risked everything to carry out dangerous work resisting the Germans--a heroic campaign in which many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P GRAKanon, Joseph.
Summary: In 1946, Europe begins its slow recovery from World War II. Adam, an American soldier, and Claudia, a Jewish woman, two people scarred by their devastating experiences during the war, fall in love, but they are forced to confront a Venice at war with itself, haunted by atrocities it would rather forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M KanonThor, Brad
Summary: "In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THOGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "After the War Between the States, a Confederate officer longs to heal the heart of Lizbeth Barclay--but first he'll have to right the wrongs that were done to her"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Gray 2017Gray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "After the War Between the States, a Confederate officer longs to heal the heart of Lizbeth Barclay--but first he'll have to right the wrongs that were done to her." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRABuhk, Tobin T.
Summary: Shows how the American Civil War created new opportunities for crime from revenge against personal enemies, counterfeiting, plunder, and abuse to massacre, and discusses the draft riot in Detroit, the Fort pillow Massacre, the rebel plot to burn New York City, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.711 BUHSkarsgard, Alexander
Summary: Andrew Briggman, a young soldier in the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, struggles with reporting his fellow recruits and their sadistic sergeant after witnessing the killing of innocent civilians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KILStern, Jessica
Summary: "Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 341.6 STEForbes, Leslie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M FORDuBois, Brendan
Summary: In the dark aftermath of World War III, Samuel Simpson, an idealistic journalist, volunteers to become a records-keeper for a U.N. war crimes investigation team in New York State and suddenly finds himself and others the target of an unknown enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007